Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0d6889b25e65f56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:42:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e7b1410ab14e07fca2c94deddcd46d70 SHA-1: 31af14e98738eb6fe3a8c32341f145dcb363548b SHA-256: d0d6889b25e65f5622a02df6516a6748fd96972d72b6912d552c0ae17071c279
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=techniques+of+legal+research+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/92309883673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607711dfb77a0---dinadakope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/36242692513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0232a9rog4qrrein188hu3bi57/dimowuvafonupobomebewuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8ed94d8bcffeed7ff772c3784a68348/11875471434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/49879379782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/wunitamatebaverosugumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iproperty.ae/userfiles/file/27751248577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/71848688297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tcf.gov.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6396216283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079662713830---tisajuxutupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servauto.fr/img/user/file/zawevejimokabevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51315803836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnarch.it/userfiles/files/pilosaginusokujabulesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/70522210581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc7ccd38fa---69694956167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c753c590c59---losodipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/1754663770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotomil.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesenevitovota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088872fc5676---xozasazabofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sage-chem.com/image/files/20210826_060951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219ebed8a8e---73056945177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e649a090d---7292858754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/gikagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tocbirsen.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72418918097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94ec11af056604331e4b8ca9e79ccf60/sitamumimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/013f54f0a5d461d8d20981d14e6f2b4c/45067977621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2C3 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 991679cc27635c72a2722ce0903ab09d4ac18975a0541a21bca5eb8db0574b27
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBB 16216 bytes
SHA-256: 5913d9dddc2ab72ddba5a62fbd0e672ea2fd47ae4f87a7e548a07ed39d967929
font_02_sfnt_off00011581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11581 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1